As of last Friday my best friend of 35+ years and I became Pennsylvanias 69th Mushroom farm. Legit AF......
The ShroomErie LLC.
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We've had some hurtles however we've been able to overcome most everything so far fairly easily. We are good with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Pennsylvania Department of Health, the USDA and we got a starter building that's good with the Zoning board to do what we're going to do. Our last thorn in the side is Code Enforcement. They're being retards but we'll get it worked out in the end.
I thought I'd start a thread. It will help me to monitor our progress as we get up and running. It's also a pretty dope process since it isnt like growing plants, at all. I'll break it down as much as I can, as I go along.
All comments, advice, criticism etc. is encouraged. This is all new to me. Other than already growing Psilocybin Cubensis as a hobby in yhe past, I'm told Gourmet Mushrooms are a lot more forgiving as well as easier to grow than the Psyidelics are. So far, it's fairly familiar to me. My partner has been growing Gourmet Mushrooms for a few years now. He started off with P. Cubensis himself as well. He is actually who showed me how to grow Mushrooms to begin with.
Laws prevent us from grown those strains however we do currently have 6 strains of P. Cubensis in liquid culture that we can legally sell to everywhere except California, Georgia and Iowa. Here's a little menu I whipped up. Nothing is permanent yet. We still have to get a logo, website and million other things together but in time, it will all fall together.
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We plan on supplying local restaurants, grocery stores and farmer markets. Co-ops as well as we'll be 100% organic. The D.I.Yer and the general hobbyist. We also plan on selling dozens of varieties online through either liquid culture or Agar plates with the strains already started. Except for the Cubensis strains, we can only sell that in liquid culture as the mycelium contains a small amount of psilocybin in it making it a controlled substance.
A little deeper background.....
My partner has worked for a Major food distributor here delivering goods to restaurants all over the Tristate for the last 16 years. He's planned the seed in many of the restaurants he delivers to over the years that he grows mushrooms etc. and showed them samples and what not. Many are interested. Hell, locally, the selection is garbage and we really think we can do better. I'm not even a people person and I got 2 restaurants I frequent on board easily.
I myself have worked for the last 25 years as a C.S.T in an Operating Room. Growing mushrooms requires a great deal of sterile technique as well as how to prevent cross contamination of biological samples knowledge and how to maintain sterilitiy as well as an aseptic environment. I also very much know my way around a lab. My expertise isn't in the grow tent, that's my partners strong point. My strengths are in the start game up until fruiting. I'll perfect that part as we go since I got a pretty good teacher as a buisness partner. I'll in turn teach him better sterile technique.
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